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MSI GTX 1080 Ti Gaming X Trio Review

MSI GTX 1080 Ti Gaming X Trio Testing:

Tom Clancy's The Division:

Tom Clancy's The Division faced an uphill battle to become the highest opening day grossing title in Ubisoft's history. Built as an open-world, third-person shooter video game, Ubisoft Massive developed the game with some assistance from Red Star Entertainment for PC, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4, with Ubisoft taking care of the publishing. Ubisoft Massive developed and built the Snowdrop game engine specifically for The Divison due to the need for an intelligent engine to manage the dynamic global illumination, destruction, detail, and visual effects.

Settings:

DirectX 12

Ultra Preset

Shadow Quality = High

Post FX AA = Off

Temporal AA = Supersampling

Snow = Yes

Fog = Ultra

Anisotropic Filtering = 16x

Hitman (2016):

Hitman (2016) is a stealth action-adventure game played from a third-person perspective. Hitman (2016) is the sixth iteration of this series and acts as a prequel to the entire series, while also taking part after the events in Hitman: Absolution. The game was developed by IO Interactive and published by Square Enix, with a release date for PC in March 2016 for the first part of the episodic content. To deliver the visuals, the game uses a modified Glacier 2 game engine. This title takes advantage of the ability to run in DirectX 12 mode for users who have adopted Windows 10.

Settings:

DirectX 12

Level Of Detail = Ultra

SMAA

Texture Quality = High

Texture Filter = 16x Anisotropic

SSAO = On

Shadow Maps = Ultra

Shadow Resolution = High

In both Tom Clancy's The Division and Hitman (2016), MSI's GTX 1080 Ti Gaming X Trio is easily outpacing the FPS levels delivered by the NVIDIA Founders Edition card in each of the three resolutions. Overclocking tightens up the margins somewhat, but the Trio still keeps cruising to a higher FPS level.